Grace Noh is a curator and artistic creator whose philosophy lies on the new formations of ideas from the translation of the past. Creation of an idea can never be a pure creation of its own. Having spent her childhood and adolescence in Korea and Hawaii and later in Boston and New York, Noh has naturally developed her interest in the hybridity of artistic and cultural exchanges among people. With her diverse cultural background, Noh strives to explore human knowledge and emotions that can be expressed in any kind of artistic means. Noh received her M.A. in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She lives and works in New York.

Every subject in a photograph is someone’s loved one or at least somebody recognizable in someone else’s memory. Photographs preserve some kind of memory. Memory cannot be seen in photographs, but it can be evoked since photographs are, as Barthes says, “the past and the real” from previous experiences.

“The mirror is like a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not… It’s an ‘unreal’ space. Also, the mirror is a heteropia as the mirror does exist in reality. It makes this place that I occupy at the moment when I look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real and absolutely unreal.”